April Gornik is most known for her paintings of American landscapes. Her realist yet dreamlike compositions embody oppositions and speak to America’s historically conflicted relationship with nature. Gornik is a passionate supporter of environmental causes and has said “I have no problem with people reading an ecological message into my work.”
Monthly Archives: February 2012
David Goldes
The work of David Goldes examines historical scientific research and the nature of physical phenomena. His work is included in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Bush Foundation and the McKnight Foundation.
Anthony Goicolea
Cuban-American artist Anthony Goicolea is known for his elaborately staged photographs, video works, and layered drawings on Mylar that examine issues of identity.
Laurent Girard
From a young age, photographer Laurent Girard was fascinated with the chemistry and physics involved in technology. Girard currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
John Gilliland
Stan Gaz
The work of Stan Gaz explores themes of loss, memory and transformation. The imagery in his work is allegorized by the actions and effects of the hunter and the hunted. Gaz finds these roles to be oddly interchangeable, where neither is ever free of the other’s influence, but nevertheless transformation still takes place.
Adam Fuss
Adam Fuss is a British artist who explores the natural world and its symbolic and spiritual meaning using a range of alternative techniques drawing from the history of the medium of photography.
Paul Fusco (1930-2020)
Paul Fusco worked as a photographer with the United States Army Signal Corps in Korea from 1951 to 1953. He then studied photojournalism at Ohio University, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1957. He moved to New York City and started his career as a staff photographer with Look magazine.
Fusco moved to Mill Valley, California, in 1970. After Look closed down in 1971, Fusco approached Magnum Photos, becoming an associate in 1973 and a full member the following year. His photography has been published widely in major US magazines, including Time, Life, Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and Psychology Today, as well as in other publications worldwide.
His most acclaimed work was the result of a Look assignment in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated and his body was carried by train from New York to Washington, DC. Many of those unpublished images eventually appeared in the book Paul Fusco: RFK (and two more expanded editions), inspired an HBO documentary, and were exhibited around the world. A hugely successful installation of the photos, known as The Train, was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2018.
Natalie Frank (b. 1980)
Natalie Frank’s oil-on-canvas and mixed-media paintings – ranging from small-scale portraits to large narrative scenes – are centered on the human figure, rendered semi-abstract and often depicted in exaggerated physical and emotional states. “The narrative – the stories that people tell and use to construct their lives, whether it be religious, humanistic, mythical, social, was and is my entry point in painting and the figure,” she has said. Frank was born in Austin, Texas, in 1980. She received her B.A. in studio art from Yale University, and her M.F.A. in visual arts from Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Burger Collection, Hong Kong; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; the Yale University Art Museum, New Haven; and many others.
Brian Finke
Raised in Texas and schooled in New York City, Brian Finke received his first award for photography at the age of 22, and soon defined himself as a documentary photographer at the World Press Master Class in 2001 for which he was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Photography in 2004. His cheerleading and football players series produced his first monograph entitled 2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, which received much attention in New York City and abroad.
Finke’s work has taken him throughout the world to photograph and lecture. His photographs have been seen in solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Jacksonville, and Houston, among others, and are in permanent collections worldwide. He lives in New York City.
Marion Faller (1941-2014)
Marion Faller photographed cultural traditions and public displays celebrating seasonal events, folklore, popular religious customs, and displays of patriotism.
Faller was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1941. She earned a BA at Hunter College in New York City, and an MFA from the University at Buffalo. She taught both studio and history courses in photography at Hunter, Marymount Manhattan College, Colgate University, and the University at Buffalo. She retired from the University at Buffalo as a professor of photography in 2006.
Faller was awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, CEPA Gallery (Center for Electronic and Photographic Arts), and Light Work. Her photographs are represented in public collections including the George Eastman House, Walker Art Center, Visual Studies Workshop, Light Work, Fenimore Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Buffalo Seminary, and Addison Gallery of American Art.
Faller wrote: “While much of my photography addresses the various ways we celebrate holidays and respond to the changing seasons, I’ve been photographing flags and other patriotic displays since October 2001. I am trying to document both the ordinary and the extraordinarily inventive ways people are approaching the ritual of displaying the flag—following established traditions and creating new ones. Most of my photographs were made in New York (where I’ve spent most of my adult life) and in New Jersey (where I grew up).”
Dan Estabrook (b. 1969)
Jani Emerging
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Yvette Marie Dostatni
Yvette Marie Dostatni is a Chicago native who has been photographing professionally since the age of 18. Her work has appeared in SPIN, Smart Money Magazine, Shape Magazine, Russian Esquire, National Geographic, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Tribune Magazine and The Chicago Reader.
In 2000, Dostatni was selected by the Comer Family Foundation as one of eight full-time photographers to document the city of Chicago. The artist is also the winner of numerous documentary photography awards.
Portfolios by Dostatni are in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Museum of Contemporary Photography. The artist is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Thomas Demand (b. 1964)
Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson (b. 1962) is an American photographer renowned for his elaborately staged, cinematic tableaux of small-town American homes and neighborhoods. Each of Crewdson’s images requires a team of hundreds of people, a budget not unlike that of a small movie production, and weeks to months of planning to produce. Crewdson’s work has been widely published and exhibited internationally.
Francesco Clemente (b. 1952)
Born in Naples, Italy, Francesco Clemente is a contemporary artist best known for his impact with the Neo-Expressionist movement in the 1980s. Mostly focusing on the human body, Clemente utilized a variety of media throughout his work. Clemente studied architecture at the University of Rome and later moved to India where he found inspiration for years to come. Today Clemente resides in New York City as a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Rick Chapman
Catherine Chalmers
Catherine Chalmers holds a BS in Engineering from Stanford University and an MFA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited her artwork around the world, including at MoMA P.S.1, New York City; MASSMoCA, North Adams; Kunsthalle Vienna; and Today Art Museum, Beijing; among others. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Time Out New York, ArtNews, and Artforum. She has been featured on PBS, CNN, NPR, and the BBC. Two books have been published on her work: Food Chain (Aperture, 2000) and American Cockroach (Aperture, 2004). Her video “Safari” received a Jury Award (Best Experimental Short) at SXSW Film Festival in 2008. In 2010 Chalmers received at Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2015 she was awarded a Rauschenberg Residency. Chalmers lives and works in New York City.
Dike Blair (b. 1952)
Dike Blair is an American artist who received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977. He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, and the Rome Prize in 2010. He currently resides in New York City.